A few years ago I decided that I was getting too old to still be in a flatshare and the normal hassles that go with it (other people’s mess) and bought a tiny (25 square metres) flat which I then ended up letting out rather than moving into mainly for economics reasons. The new [...]

I really dislike it when people get into a mood and don’t tell you what is wrong and instead just make you feel bad. Like it isn’t hard enough to feel good about life without having to put up with someone else bringing you down. When I worked with homeless kids in Australia [...]

I wrote to my partner in Turkey about the restaurant saying until I was bought out that we need to agree on how the restaurant would be run and she finally wrote back yesterday. It looks like I am going to have to try and get legal advice as it seems we can’t agree [...]

Only two observers showed up for our ride today (the fact that it was pissing down might have had something to do with that). As there was seven pupils we all rode in single file and weren’t allowed to over take each other which was nice as it gave me a chance to concentrate [...]

I met up with a musician for a date to go riding the Essex bends as I really needed to do some training. We didn’t really say anything to each other before we started riding and after a while he made me go in front and I promptly lost him at a roundabout. [...]

I talked to my best friend in New Zealand this morning and she is engaged to the guy that she started going out with before xmas. The only problem is that he has a really bad temper and takes it out on her which is pretty upsetting to hear.
Tonight’s date was really interesting almost [...]

All the sites that I joined before Valentines day have come to fruition this week and tonight was the first of three blind (as in never met them) dates. We went to see the musical Evita as I really liked the movie and the soundtrack. Seeing as how the guy had been particularly [...]

I have added passing my advanced riding test to my revamped new year’s resolutions as it turns out that my membership to ELAM is £35 instead of £15 because I haven’t passed my test yet. So now I have an economic reason to pass the exam.

I have been thinking quite a bit about my feelings of restlessness. And even though I do miss the travelling from my old job, seeing new places was becoming a bit passé in the end. If you want a wide range of experiences then London really should be the place to do it [...]

On Valentines Day one of the free evening tabloids had an article about a dating site called gorgeous networks where the current members vote on whether you can join and then it is two hundred and fifty pounds to join. So I signed up and was voted in but have decided not to join. [...]

Today was going to go for a ride with my newly lowered forks but ended up spending the day helping my friend write a business plan and grant application for a male skincare range which I am helping her set up on the business and IT side in exchange for a small share of the [...]

It is Chinese New Year tomorrow which means I get another go at my new years resolutions as my current ones aren’t really working out. Other than the soup I cooked I haven’t managed to do any of my own cooking this year. And after about two weeks of doing yoga in the [...]

I attended my motorcycle maintenance course tonight and lowered the forks on my bike by 1.7cm. It is amazing the difference it makes. It feels like I am riding a totally different bike. It is like the difference between sitting in a pickup truck as compared to a car. It makes [...]

The statistics page on my website shows the search strings that have brought up my website even if came up on page 101 of google. In December and January someone had done a search on ‘dawn annette twisty’. I just assumed that someone knew my sister’s name was Dawn and that I really [...]

A friend of mine emailed me that in Finland, Valentine’s Day is called Ystävänpäivä which translates into “Friend’s day”. As the name says, this day is more about remembering your friends than your loved ones. I always try to go back to New Zealand and spend this day with my grandmother, though that is [...]